Re: [CentOS] Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-07 Thread John R Pierce
John Bowden wrote: I have a external USB HD enclosure that takes its power from the one USB socket. Its only failed to do so on one oldish tower that a friend of mine has, on that machine it needed the second "power" connection. Got it from Ebay thts also out of spec, as USB is speced for 2.

Re: [CentOS] Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-07 Thread John Bowden
On Sunday 06 January 2008 08:35:13 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> My company supplies me with a very nice HP nc2400. Much faster, more > >> memory, etc than my old HP nc4010. > >> > >> Problem is the drive is not swappable, and they encrypt the drive

Re: [CentOS] Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Les Mikesell wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: My company supplies me with a very nice HP nc2400. Much faster, more memory, etc than my old HP nc4010. Problem is the drive is not swappable, and they encrypt the drive (the OS is XP). The nc2400 has a DVD/CDRW and 2 USB 2.0 ports so I was thinki

Re: [CentOS] Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-06 Thread Les Mikesell
Robert Moskowitz wrote: My company supplies me with a very nice HP nc2400. Much faster, more memory, etc than my old HP nc4010. Problem is the drive is not swappable, and they encrypt the drive (the OS is XP). The nc2400 has a DVD/CDRW and 2 USB 2.0 ports so I was thinking. Make a Live

Re: [CentOS] Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Jason Clark wrote: Not to pitch another distro, but knoppix and dsl do pretty much what are looking for ,minus the xen. I am using DSL 4.2 on a Libretto, so I will first be testing booting the nc2400 off a DSL live CD. What I would propose though is to run vmware P2V (now called converter) on y

Re: [CentOS] Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-05 Thread Jason Clark
Not to pitch another distro, but knoppix and dsl do pretty much what are looking for ,minus the xen. What I would propose though is to run vmware P2V (now called converter) on your XP machine. It will export a vmware image of that drive, then just format that sucker, install centos and vmware and

[CentOS] Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
My company supplies me with a very nice HP nc2400. Much faster, more memory, etc than my old HP nc4010. Problem is the drive is not swappable, and they encrypt the drive (the OS is XP). The nc2400 has a DVD/CDRW and 2 USB 2.0 ports so I was thinking. Make a Live DVD with everything I ne